ARPA Funds
June 12, 2023 at 9:33 p.m.
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I don’t seem to recall that the Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds were to be used for general maintenance insufficiency. I agree the Kosciusko County Council should review the request more carefully.
According to a news report, funds were required to do things like painting walls, reattaching baseboard, that kind of thing. Admittedly, I’ve not looked into the matter carefully, however the request for the $2.4 million in funds resembles what some school districts nowadays do, allowing routine maintenance chores to go unattended, requiring a new building here and there.
Does anyone know why this is the case here? Is it a simple lack of funds to have a couple of extra building and grounds people to paint a wall, rip up and replace a section of frayed carpet, re-glue baseboard molding, paint a dirty wall? Or does letting it go have to do with requirements for bidding small projects?
Gosh, I don’t know. It just seems they could do more things as we go, just like we do in our own homes … before it gets to be a bigger problem.
Dan Lee
Warsaw, via email
I don’t seem to recall that the Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds were to be used for general maintenance insufficiency. I agree the Kosciusko County Council should review the request more carefully.
According to a news report, funds were required to do things like painting walls, reattaching baseboard, that kind of thing. Admittedly, I’ve not looked into the matter carefully, however the request for the $2.4 million in funds resembles what some school districts nowadays do, allowing routine maintenance chores to go unattended, requiring a new building here and there.
Does anyone know why this is the case here? Is it a simple lack of funds to have a couple of extra building and grounds people to paint a wall, rip up and replace a section of frayed carpet, re-glue baseboard molding, paint a dirty wall? Or does letting it go have to do with requirements for bidding small projects?
Gosh, I don’t know. It just seems they could do more things as we go, just like we do in our own homes … before it gets to be a bigger problem.
Dan Lee
Warsaw, via email
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